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On Sunday, June 9, 2019 6:22 PM, 'awokd' via qubes-users
<qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> 'kht-lists' via qubes-users:
>
> > I like the sounds of this option. My "production" workstation has two
> > monitors with a VM running on the right monitor in portrait mode (always on
> > visible workspace) which I use for general purpose web browsing on one
> > workspace, my ISP orivided email on a second workspace with 2 workspaces to
> > spare. The left monitor, landscape mode, points to the host OS and has 6
> > workspaces. One is dedicated to another VM which I use to access my
> > Protonmail and Lavabit accounts (one per Firefox or Thunderbird instance in
> > separate workspaces). The other 5 workspaces are used as needed for
> > whatever I might be doing. This might include a remote desktop viewer to
> > various other servers etc., other VMs and so on. I have not computed the
> > number of possible permutations between the two monitors but it is probably
> > larger than I want to know :-) I would be a challenge to replicate this
> > functionality in qubes-os and I need to procure some new hardware as this
> > workstation is the only machine I have with the necessary features to
> > support qubes-os.
>
> Qubes' default is XFCE which has workspaces too. Each application is in
> its own independent window even if they're running on different VMs
> underneath. You can move them around to any workspace. It will make more
> sense when you try it.
Thanks, I do need to try it to really figure it out.
>
> > Thank you for your insightful reply. I guess I need to upgrade my main
> > workstation (it is an i7-6700) to something more powerful and then devote
> > it to qubes-os.
>
> If you have the necessary virtualization features, the next most
> important things are lots of RAM (32 GB is comfortable, 16 GB isn't bad)
> and a large enough SSD for the OS and your heavily used VMs. CPU and GPU
> don't matter much for performance. Intel or AMD for video are more Qubes
> compatible than nvidia.
>
>
My current workstation - Dell Precision 3620 with an i7-6700, 16 GB RAM, a 240
GB PCIe M.2 drive and a 250 GB Samsung 850 SATA drive would make a decent
starter if I pull the nVidia K620 card and us the Intel on-board graphics.
However, that would leave me without my main machine. Time for a new toy :-)
Ken
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